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I have a little dilemma

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SirFryanator
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As some of you know, I've been on here for a couple years. NS has changed me...nothing pseudo-philosophically and whatnot, but really, my attitude and such. My musical taste has expanded to all types. I've been more into chill music and reggae/hip-hop. I've now been performing hip-hop locally since 2 months ago and now I've began recording.
I have two options right now:
1) work my ass off this year and create an LP to distribute online and around locally so that I can possibly start a musical career, or just do more gigs for fun.
2) I can stop right now, since the genre I perform in is typically occupied by gangster black people who are either amazing or really terrible. I've had very mixed reviews on my music, from my friends/locals saying "this is dope shit" to "this is the gayest shit I've ever heard." Will this just be a phase in which my creative flow will end by the time I turn 18?

I rapped the NS anthem. Not my best by far, but you get the gist of what I do. I made the beat, lyrics for the most part, the works.
Essentially, I can either try to do a performance at an assembly to prove that I'm not a retard by doing this, or I can just keep it on the low and try to get support just by talking to people that I think will like it.
Do you as a large group that has heard my music think I have a greater chance of succeeding at this endeavor than totally crashing and my reputation going down the tube?
Nov 28 2007 11:32PM
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steezebeast
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I dunno man, I really liked NS anthem. good flow, good beat, etc. yeah, it could have used work but if you perform you prolly didnt spend a lot of time on that outside song. you're young I'm guessing and have a long ways ahead of you. and if you can write more songs like the lyrics in your profile you can definitely imoress  some people and shut up the haters. Fuck em.
Nov 28 2007 11:39PM
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SirFryanator
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glad you enjoyed it.
Nov 29 2007 12:09AM
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Rippy087
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if you love music go for it, what's the worst that can happen?
Nov 29 2007 12:37AM
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WONTON
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get shot by some east coast gang
Nov 29 2007 12:39AM
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Arabian.
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Quit. Rap is a musical phase, like new wave, or synth pop. Not only that, but white people are generally not allowed into the rap world unless they make sick beats or are incredibly talented (eminem made sick beats and is talented, but died out quick see?). Its dope that you're trying to do something creative, but in the end its up to you. Judging from what I see, if you're in college already(are you?) and you don't have your heart concretely set on this to the point of death being the only thing keeping you from achieving this, then you're probably a little too late.
Nov 29 2007 12:49AM
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SirFryanator
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No, I'm not in college yet. I'm in Grade 11.
I have alternative plans for if I cannot make the LP so I think I will just go for it. I actually just talked with the assembly director tonight and he said that if I can audition by February I can get in no problem. He seemed to like the music, which was nice.
Thanks for the thought out comment but I kind of made this thread in haste since I already knew what I needed to do...I'm almost 100% sure I won't go big at all, but if I can create a decent record with music that implants at least some intelligent lyrics in the business then I will have achieved my goal.
If not that, then I plan to go into hip-hop/jazz/rock violin with beats behind it. Then I don't have to rap haha.

and WONTON, that's not very funny. I actually have a song written about a friend who was stabbed to death a year ago. Gang rivalries blow ass. It's a fucked up world we live in.
Nov 29 2007 1:36AM
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kepler.
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I"m going to be as nice as possible but I'll still be blunt. I've heard your most recent version of the NS anthem. Its even downloaded and on my computer. But if that is something you took a lot of time on then you need to work on your flow a good deal. Rappers have an innate ability to fit words into a rap by either not annunciating or leaving out syllables. This is why you can barely understand them when they speak on an interview or something, but it sounds great on an album. The way you were rapping wasn't even rap IMO, you were talking in a monotonous tone and stopped and started on words that completely ruined your flow. Your beat has promise, but from what I've heard of your pieces, starting a career in rap would be a terrible idea.


These days kids are only interested in lyrics that involve getting drunk, doing a dance, killing someone or fucking some girl.. I assume you don't have personal expereince of the grittier sides of rap so its going to be very hard to get into the hip hop industry. There are even fewer white people who have legitemately gotten into this industry and stayed there. Aesop Rock being one of them. He probably has one of the greatest flowing voices ever. He's 10 times the artist than any rapper out there these days rapping about mindless shit. But he isn't commercially successful because he doesn't relate with the major audience of rap and hip hop, the african american community.

Having rap as a hobby is great, but thinking you can make a career out of it is semi-dillusional. Agian I'm sorry for being so harsh but thats just me. I hope things work out for the best.
Nov 29 2007 9:38AM
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SirFryanator
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I agree, I really can't connect with the rap community. That's why I really don't think I can make any sort of career out of it. I've decided to try to make it a fun little hobby of sorts.
And I really dislike most rap that has no message, unless the beat and flow are superb. I mean, amazingly good to my ears.
So yeah. I'll work on the flow but I really want to stay articulate in the raps or else it'll be mindless nonsense like it normally is. I guess beat poetry of a sort would be more my genre.
Nov 29 2007 10:43AM
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mackinnon
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i have a lot of friends who are in the music business (not hip hop), and it's definitely not all it's cracked up to be...some have been in bands for years and haven't gone too far, some are signed and still deal with a lot of BS. i woudln't bother. you're a small fish in a HUGE sea. just keep doing it for fun and go to college haha
Nov 29 2007 8:50PM
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kickerlicker
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where can we hear the freestyle anthem
Nov 29 2007 8:54PM
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doublexl
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fuck tha haters. if you wanna do it, make it happen.
Nov 29 2007 9:03PM
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word-sauce
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where can i hear the NS anthem? wow and thank god i never rap battled you in that cult haha
Nov 29 2007 9:07PM
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calebski.
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i loved the ns anthem
Nov 29 2007 9:07PM
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SirFryanator
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https://newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/333153/

Nov 29 2007 10:21PM
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kingarthurs
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if its what you love doing, absolutely pursue rapping.  life is only so long man, you have to take advantage of every opportunitie you get.
Nov 29 2007 10:35PM
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Microcosm
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You sound too intelligent to spend your life rapping about nonsense because that's what crowds want. Keep doing it as a hobby and rapping about things that mean a lot to you, but go to college.
Nov 29 2007 10:47PM
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SirFryanator
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I definitely plan on going to college, in fact I pretty much already know which ones I want to apply to. No reason for me not to in any case.
Nov 29 2007 10:48PM
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Nicholas.
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yeah eminem died out real quick...right after he made probably like a hundred milly, but hey why not have a long boring career where you wont ever make a 100th of that in 40 years?
Nov 29 2007 10:50PM
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Microcosm
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In that case I'd say work on whatever you're studying in college etc. with the rapping on the side and see where it goes from there. Either way, good luck man.
Nov 29 2007 11:10PM
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coolhandluke
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yeah mercer island gang rivalries blow ass.  i heard some kids from the north end of the island got roughed up when they tried going to the south island QFC.
Nov 30 2007 12:24PM
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I-Ski-AK
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...and another long story made short
Nov 30 2007 12:51PM
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-+Siver+-
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i think it was dl incognito said somethting along the lines of this haters hate themselves so of course they hate ya. But yea do what you do of course there is some people who aren't going to like your stuff so fuckem and just do what you do
Nov 30 2007 1:39PM
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SirFryanator
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I don't live on MI anymore. Plus the only reason we could afford housing is because my dad worked his ass off in college and he finally got a large enough payraise to move out of the shitty neighborhood we lived in till I was 8. Try living in low income housing for the first 8 years of your life, see how that feels and then see if you don't care for the bonds you make between your childhood friends.
What an asshole you are.
Nov 30 2007 2:08PM
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Mat.
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just smoke some mad blunts man..
Nov 30 2007 2:13PM
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coolhandluke
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ngp=royaleskis:

claim of starting a ski company......failure (wheres the product?)
claim of a huge bag of tricks at whatever whistler camp you went to......failure (plus whatever temper flare you had in the hotel)
claim of rap career......mixed signals (you say to have a positive message but spit phrases like "not that into getting pussy" and "southern women are dumb" are fairly degrading for someone at a $40,000 a year boarding school)

you shouldnt bother with dilemmas.....watch some IBM commericals....stop ideating....start doing
Nov 30 2007 3:04PM
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SirFryanator
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scholarship, buddy.
we had this discussion through PM. No need to talk about the idiotic past of mine where I was a stupid retarded claiming nerd. That was 2 years ago, things change, lessons learned, moving on now.I merely wanted to ask whether I should try to continue a hobby I liked to do and you come in and fuck it all up.
Nov 30 2007 4:23PM
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SirFryanator
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and by the way, pretty much every single southern girl that I met through my cousins were pretty dumb, rich, and pretty much looked down on me because I didn't wear brand name clothing. So yeah, I kind of do have a grudge against the south.
Nov 30 2007 4:26PM
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fillup
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FUCK THA SOUTH
Nov 30 2007 4:46PM
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2+2=5
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post your myspace
Nov 30 2007 4:54PM
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